Mark DeSaulnier

Mark DeSaulnier (31 March 1952-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 11) from 3 January 2015, succeeding George Miller.

Biography
Mark DeSaulnier was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1952, and he worked as a probation officer, truck driver, and a hotel services employee as a young man. He settled in Concord, California during the 1970s, and he became a member of the Teamsters and the HEREIU hotel/restaurant worker's union before opening and operating several restaurants in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. From 1994 to 2006, he served in the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, switching his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in 2000. He served in the State Assembly from 2006 to 2008 and in the State Senate from 2008 to 2015, and he was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2014.